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GAME 5 • SEPT. 29, 2012 • LOUISIANA TECH AT VIRGINIA • SCOTT STADIUM • CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. ATHLETICS MEDIA RELATIONS Asst. AD for Media Relations (coach interviews): Jim Daves O: (434) 243-2467 • [email protected] Football Contact (player interviews): Vincent Briedis O: (434) 982-5533 • [email protected] ON THE WEB: VirginiaSports.com VIRGINIA ON TWITTER: @VirginiaSports, @UVA_Football 7 COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMERS • 3 NFL HALL OF FAMERS • 27 FIRST-TEAM ALL-AMERICANS • 111 FIRST-TEAM ALL-ACC HONOREES 2012 SCHEDULE/RESULTS GAME DETAILS Date Opponent Time/Result TV VIRGINIA Venue Scott Stadium Sept. 1 RICHMOND W/43-19 RSN CAVALIERS Capacity 61,500 Sept. 8 PENN STATE W/17-16 ABC Record: 2-2 ACC: 0-1 Playing Surface Grass Sept. 15 at Georgia Tech* L/20-56 ESPNU Series vs. La Tech: First Meeting Sept. 22 at No. 17 TCU L/7-27 ESPN HEAD COACH: Mike London, third season In Charlottesville: First Meeting Sept. 29 LOUISIANA TECH 3:30 p.m. ESPN3 UVa Record: 14-15 • Career Record: 38-20 • Record vs. LA Tech: 0-0 Webcast ESPN3 Oct. 6 at Duke* 3 p.m. RSN Radio Virginia Sports Network Oct. 13 MARYLAND1* TBA LOUISIANA TECH Oct. 20 WAKE FOREST* TBA Live Stats VirginiaSports.com BULLDOGS School Websites VirginiaSports.com Nov. 3 at NC State* TBA Record: 3-0 WAC: 0-0 Nov. 10 MIAMI* TBA LaTechSports.com Nov. 15 NORTH CAROLINA* 7:30 p.m. ESPN HEAD COACH: Sonny Dykes, third season Nov. 24 at Virginia Tech* TBA La Tech Record: 16-12 • Career Record: 16-12 • Record vs. UVa: 0-0 All Times Eastern; *ACC game; 1Homecomings VIRGINIA RETURNS HOME TO FACE LOUISIANA TECH VIRGINIA COACHING STAFF • The Virginia football team returns home after being on the road for two weeks with a Saturday, Sept. On the Field 29, meeting vs. Louisiana Tech at Scott Stadium. The game is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m., and will be Mike London .................... Head Coach webcast by ESPN3. Bill Lazor .......................... Offensive Coordinator/QBs/WRs Jim Reid ........................... Defensive Coordinator THROWBACK TO 1968 AND THE FRANK QUAYLE ERA Vincent Brown .................. Linebackers/Asst. Special Teams Coord. Shawn Moore ................... Tight Ends • The Virginia Cavaliers are donning throwback uniforms Saturday to honor the 1968 Cavaliers and the 1968 Anthony Poindexter ......... Special Teams Coordinator/Safeties ACC Player of the Year, Frank Quayle. Scott Wachenheim ........... Offensive Line • During the game’s halftime ceremonies, Quayle will be honored for his involvement with the Virginia foot- Marques Hagans (GA) ....... Wide Receivers ball program as a student-athlete and then as a member of the school’s radio broadcast crew for 29 years. He Brad Robbins (GA) ............ Linebackers/Safeties will be presented a framed copy of his retro jersey. • The members of the 1968 Virginia football team in attendance will join Quayle on the field for the recogni- In the Press Box Mike Faragalli ................... Running Backs tion. Jeff Hanson ...................... Defensive Line • A native of Garden City, N.Y., Quayle rushed for 2,695 yards and caught 83 passes for 1,145 yards during his Chip West ......................... Cornerbacks career. During the 1968 season, he rushed for 1,213 yards and caught 30 passes for 426 yards. In addition to Jonathan Lewis (GA) ........ Defensive Line being named the ACC’s Player of the Year, he also earned the league’s Athlete of the Year Award. Quayle also Mike Saint Germain (GA) .... Offensive Line/Tight Ends starred on the Virginia lacrosse team during his collegiate athletic career. • Quayle’s number 24 is one of six numbers retired by the Virginia football program. The retro Virginia game WEBCAST: ESPN3 P-b-P: John Sadak helmets will feature a special decal as a salute to Quayle. Analyst: John Gregory Sidelines: Angela Mallen VIRGINIA VS. LOUISIANA TECH, WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE • Louisiana Tech is UVa’s lone first-time opponent on the 2012 schedule. RADIO: Virginia Sports Network • Louisiana Tech is the first school from the state of Louisiana to invade Scott Stadium since Tulane, ironically P-b-P: Dave Koehn in 1968 – the season being honored Saturday by the throwback uniforms. Frank Quayle in the game rushed Analyst: Tony Covington for 121 yards on 20 carries and two rushing TDs. He also caught a receiving TD in a 63-47 UVa rout. Sidelines: Jay James • UVa is 3-1 all-time against members of the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and 2-0 against current SATELLITE RADIO: Sirius 113, XM 199 members. • Virginia is 2-0 in Scott Stadium against WAC members. FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW • Virginia’s most recent WAC opponent was Idaho in 2011. The Cavaliers came away with the 21-20 win in • Louisiana Tech is the first program from the Pelican overtime, only the seventh overtime game in program history. State to invade Scott Stadium since Tulane did so • Virginia defeated BYU in the 1987 All-American Bowl before the Cougars left the league. in 1968, ironically the season being honored with • UVa’s only defeat against a WAC team came against former league member Fresno State in the 2004 MPC Saturday’s throwback uniform. Computers Bowl. Fresno State, now in its first season as a Mountain West Conference member, defeated UVa • Saturday’s game is UVa’s third all-time regular season 37-34 in overtime on the blue turf of Boise State’s Bronco Stadium. game against a member from the WAC – the previous • UVa defeated San Jose State, 52-14, at Scott Stadium in 1998 – which until Idaho’s trip to Charlottesville in two were also played at Scott Stadium. 2011 – served as the only time UVa had faced a WAC team in the regular season. • Entering the TCU game UVa had only started five drives inside the it’s own 20 – at TCU UVa started inside VIRGINIA COACHES TO PARTICIPATE IN ‘COACH TO CURE MD’ EFFORT its own 20 seven times. • In its game against Louisiana Tech, the Virginia coaching staff will be wearing a Coach to Cure MD patch • Virginia is one of 11 programs in the nation that has four 2011 bowl game participants on its schedule in to raise awareness and funding for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy research. Fans are encouraged to donate first five weeks of the 2012 season. online at www.CoachtCureMD.org or donate $5 by texting CURE to 9099. • Darius Jennings has 15 catches on the season, five of • This is the fifth annual Coach to Cure MD effort from the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). More which resulted in a first down while in a third down than 100 FBS schools will be wearing a Coach to Cure MD patch. situation - 10 total have gone for a first down. MEDIA INFORMATION PAGE 2 WEEKLY PRESS CONFERENCE MEDIA AVAILABILITY (contact the Athletics Media Relations office for teleconference call-in numbers) On each Monday during the football season, the UVa Athletics Media Relations office will conduct the weekly SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY football press conference, attended by head coach Mike London and selected student-athletes. London will field • Mike London • Weekly press conference • Defensive players avail- • Offensive players avail- • Mike London teleconfer- teleconference (7 p.m.) John Paul Jones able for interviews able for interviews ence (11:30 a.m.) questions beginning at 3 p.m. and student-athletes will Media Room • Defensive coaches avail- • Offensive coaches avail- begin interviews at 3:30 p.m. Snacks will be served. (3 p.m.) able for interviews able for interviews FRIDAY • WINA Coaches Radio • Mike London on ACC Quotes from the Monday press conference will be posted Show, Wild Wing Cafe Conference Call (Noon) • No availability on VirginiaSports.com Monday afternoon. (7-8 p.m.) PLAYER INTERVIEWS Players are available each Monday, depending on class schedules. This is the best opportunity to interview play- ers. If you have specific player interview requests, they ACC WEEKLY TELECONFERENCE ACC INJURY GUIDELINES should be directed to Vincent Briedis in the UVa Athletics The 12 ACC football coaches will be featured on a weekly On each Monday during the season, ACC schools will Media Relations office by Noon Sunday. teleconference each Wednesday (with the exception of announce any players who are out for the season or Thanksgiving week) from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., scheduled to have surgery. Requested defensive players and defensive coaches will beginning Aug. 29, and concluding Tuesday, November be available for telephone interviews Tuesday, while 21. Each coach will have 10 minutes to make an opening No other announcements regarding player injuries will offensive players and offensive coaches will be available statement and answer questions. There will be an audio be made until the end of practice on Thursday or two Wednesday. file of each teleconference on theACC.com Wednesday days prior to the next football game (Tuesday for afternoon. Transcripts of the teleconference will also be Thursday game, Thursday for Saturday). On that day, No player or coach interviews will be arranged after available on the theACC.com each Wednesday afternoon. within 90 minutes of the end of practice, injured players’ Wednesday during game week. playing status for the next game will be announced in Contact an ACC staff member or member institution’s one of five categories: POSTGAME INTERVIEWS sports information office for access instructions to the - Definitely will play Virginia’s locker room is closed to media following teleconference. - Probable games, both at home and on the road. - Questionable Frank Spaziani, Boston College .......................10:30 p.m. - Doubtful Coach London will hold his postgame press conference Dabo Swinney, Clemson ..................................10:40 p.m. - Out in the media room, while requested players and assis- Jimbo Fisher, Florida State ..............................10:50 a.m.